Saturday March 18, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

CBS's David Hawkins just interviewed Ismail Haniyeh, the future prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.
Haniyeh said he never participated in or ordered any terrorist attack. The exact quote, in translation, goes: "I've never sent anyone on a suicide mission."

If the future Palestinian leader isn't a classic example of guilty by association - who is?
Haniyeh admits that Hamas perpetrates terror - but not by his orders.
Haniyeh says that he is not involved in the terror perpetrated by Hamas - only he is one of the key leaders of Hamas.

Unless Haniyeh has tried, actively and forcefully tried, to encourage Hamas to reject terror and violence then he - personally - represents a terror organization and that means, unequivocally, that he is a terrorist leader.

Haniyeh can say whatever he wants - it is his deeds that determine what he is. Hamas still embraces terror, Haniyeh is their leader, ergo, Ismail Haniyeh is a terrorist.